2015 World Touring Car Championship

The 2015 World Touring Car Championship was a motor racing competition organised by the FIA for Super 2000 cars.^[1] It was the twelfth FIA World Touring Car Championship, and the eleventh since the series was revived in 2005. The championship comprised a Drivers Championship and a Manufacturers Championship,^[1] which were won by José María López and Citroën respectively.^[2]

Teams and drivers

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Team	Car	No.	Drivers	Rounds
Manufacturer entries
Honda Racing Team JAS^[3]	Honda Civic WTCC	2	Gabriele Tarquini^[4]	All
Honda Racing Team JAS^[3]	Honda Civic WTCC	18	Tiago Monteiro^[4]	All
Citroën Total WTCC^[5]	Citroën C-Elysée WTCC	9	Sébastien Loeb^[5]	All
		33	Ma Qing Hua^[6]	All
		37	José María López^[5]^[7]	All
		68	Yvan Muller^[5]^[8]	All
Lada Sport Rosneft^[9]	Lada Vesta WTCC^[9]	10	Nick Catsburg^[10]	5–12
		12	Robert Huff^[9]	All
		14	Mikhail Kozlovskiy^[11]	2–3
		15	James Thompson^[9]	1–3
		46	Jaap van Lagen^[12]	4–8
		47	Nicolas Lapierre^[13]	9–12
Independent entries
ROAL Motorsport^[14]	Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1	3	Tom Chilton^[14]	All
ROAL Motorsport^[14]	Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1	4	Tom Coronel^[15]	All
Zengő Motorsport^[4]	Honda Civic WTCC	5	Norbert Michelisz^[4]	All
Campos Racing^[16]	Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1	7	Hugo Valente^[16]	All
		27	John Filippi^[17]	All
		70	Maťo Homola^[18]	6
		95	Nasser Al-Attiyah^[19]	12
		99	Tin Sritrai^[20]	11
ALL–INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport^[17]	Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1	8	Sabine Schmitz^[21]	4
ALL–INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport^[17]	Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1	26	Stefano D'Aste^[22]	All
Craft Bamboo^[23]	Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1	11	Grégoire Demoustier^[23]	All
Nika International^[24]^[25]	Honda Civic WTCC	19	Rickard Rydell^[24]	1, 5, 7
Nika International^[24]^[25]	Honda Civic WTCC	29	Néstor Girolami^[26]	6, 8
Sébastien Loeb Racing^[5]	Citroën C-Elysée WTCC	25	Mehdi Bennani^[5]^[27]	All
Proteam Racing^[28]	Honda Civic WTCC	98	Dušan Borković^[28]	1–2

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Team changes

Citroën will expand its campaign to five full-time entries from 3 full-time entries and 1 part-time entry. Four of the cars will be entered by the main factory team, while the other one will be entered by the satellite team Sébastien Loeb Racing.^[5]
NIKA Racing will return to the series with a TC1-specification Honda Civic WTCC.^[24]
Lada Sport will switch from the Lada Granta 1.6T to a TC1-specification Lada Vesta for the 2015 season.^[9] Also the Russian state owned oil company Rosneft will become the team's primary sponsor after the team split with Lukoil during the 2014 season.^[29]
Liqui Moly Team Engstler, who entered 2 TC2-specification BMW 320 TC for the 2014 season, will leave the series after 8 years of participation.^[30] The team later elected to participate in the TCR International Series.^[31]
Bamboo Engineering will return to the series as Craft Bamboo Racing with a Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1.^[23]

Mid season changes

Dušan Borković left Proteam Racing after dispute with the team.^[32]

Calendar

The 2015 schedule was announced at a meeting of the FIA World Motor Sport Council in Doha, Qatar on 3 December 2014. The season is once again being contested over twenty-four races at twelve circuits, but will see several changes of venue. The races at Salzburgring, Spa-Francorchamps, Beijing and Macau have been removed from the schedule. The Races of Germany and Portugal returned to the calendar. The race in Germany will be held at the Nürburgring Nordschleife circuit^[33] while the Portuguese round will be held at the Circuito Internacional de Vila Real, a street circuit 100 kilometres (62 miles) east of Porto. Two new races were added – in Thailand at Burinam and Qatar at the Losail.^[34] On 23 January 2015, Twin Ring Motegi was announced as host of the Race of Japan.^[35] On 30 June 2015, it was announced that the season finale at the Losail International Circuit would be moved to Friday 27 November, to prevent the event from clashing with a local political event and the season finales of the 2015 Formula One season. It will be the first time WTCC will race on a Friday.^[36]

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Rnd.	Race	Race Name	Circuit	Date
1	1	Race of Argentina	Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo	8 March
1	2	Race of Argentina	Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo	8 March
2	3	Eurodatacar Race of Morocco	Circuit International Automobile Moulay El Hassan	19 April
2	4	Eurodatacar Race of Morocco	Circuit International Automobile Moulay El Hassan	19 April
3	5	MOL Group Race of Hungary	Hungaroring	3 May
3	6	MOL Group Race of Hungary	Hungaroring	3 May
4	7	Race of Germany	Nürburgring Nordschleife	16 May
4	8	Race of Germany	Nürburgring Nordschleife	16 May
5	9	Rosneft Race of Russia	Moscow Raceway	7 June
5	10	Rosneft Race of Russia	Moscow Raceway	7 June
6	11	Race of Slovakia	Automotodróm Slovakia Ring	21 June
6	12	Race of Slovakia	Automotodróm Slovakia Ring	21 June
7	13	JVC Kenwood Race of France	Circuit Paul Ricard	28 June
7	14	JVC Kenwood Race of France	Circuit Paul Ricard	28 June
8	15	Oscaro Race of Portugal	Circuito Internacional de Vila Real	12 July
8	16	Oscaro Race of Portugal	Circuito Internacional de Vila Real	12 July
9	17	JVC Kenwood Race of Japan	Twin Ring Motegi	13 September
9	18	JVC Kenwood Race of Japan	Twin Ring Motegi	13 September
10	19	Rosneft Race of China	Shanghai International Circuit	27 September
10	20	Rosneft Race of China	Shanghai International Circuit	27 September
11	21	Race of Thailand	Chang International Circuit	1 November
11	22	Race of Thailand	Chang International Circuit	1 November
12	23	DHL Race of Qatar	Losail International Circuit	27 November
12	24	DHL Race of Qatar	Losail International Circuit	27 November

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Points system

Drivers Championship points were awarded on a 25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1 basis for the first ten places in each race.^[1] Points were also awarded on a 5-4-3-2-1 basis for the first five places after the qualifying session.^[1]

Manufacturers Championship points were awarded on the same basis as for the Drivers Championship.^[1] Only the results obtained by the best two cars classified per manufacturer were taken into account.^[1] All other cars of that same manufacturer were considered invisible as far as scoring points was concerned.^[1]

Results and standings

Races

Compensation weights

The most competitive cars keep a 60 kg compensation weight. The other cars get a lower one, calculated according to their results for the three previous rounds. The less the cars get some good results, the less they get a compensation weight, from 0 kg to 60 kg. For the first two rounds, all the cars had a 60 kg compensation weight.

Compensation weight comes into effect for the third round, in Hungary, with Citroën penalized by a maximum of 60 kg compensation weight, as the best results cars.^[37]

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Car	Hungaroring	Nürburgring	Moscow	Slovakia Ring	Le Castellet	Vila Real	Motegi	Shanghai	Buriram	Losail
Citroën C-Elysée WTCC	+60 kg	+60 kg	+60 kg	+60 kg	+60 kg	+60 kg	+60 kg	+60 kg	+60 kg	+60 kg
Honda Civic WTCC	0 kg	0 kg	+20 kg	+60 kg	+40 kg	+30 kg	0 kg	+40 kg	+40 kg	+40 kg
Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1	0 kg	0 kg	+40 kg	+50 kg	+20 kg	+20 kg	+10 kg	0 kg	0 kg	0 kg
Lada Vesta WTCC	0 kg	0 kg	0 kg	0 kg	+20 kg	+20 kg	0 kg	0 kg	0 kg	+10 kg

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Results

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Race	Race Name	Pole Position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning team	Winning manufacturer	Independent winner	Report
1	Race of Argentina	José María López	José María López	José María López	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Norbert Michelisz	Report
2	Race of Argentina		Sébastien Loeb	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Mehdi Bennani	Report
3	Race of Morocco	José María López	José María López	José María López	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Mehdi Bennani	Report
4	Race of Morocco		José María López	Yvan Muller	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Tom Chilton	Report
5	Race of Hungary	Yvan Muller	José María López	José María López	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Hugo Valente	Report
6	Race of Hungary		Gabriele Tarquini	Norbert Michelisz	Zengő Motorsport	Honda	Norbert Michelisz	Report
7	Race of Germany	José María López	José María López	José María López	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Norbert Michelisz	Report
8	Race of Germany		Yvan Muller	Yvan Muller	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Mehdi Bennani	Report
9	Race of Russia	Yvan Muller	Yvan Muller	Yvan Muller	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Tom Chilton	Report
10	Race of Russia		Robert Huff	Tiago Monteiro	Honda Racing Team JAS	Honda	Norbert Michelisz	Report
11	Race of Slovakia	Yvan Muller	Yvan Muller	Yvan Muller	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Hugo Valente	Report
12	Race of Slovakia		Sébastien Loeb	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Hugo Valente	Report
13	Race of France	Sébastien Loeb	Sébastien Loeb	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Tom Chilton	Report
14	Race of France		José María López	José María López	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Norbert Michelisz	Report
15	Race of Portugal	José María López	José María López	José María López	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Norbert Michelisz	Report
16	Race of Portugal		Ma Qing Hua	Ma Qing Hua	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Norbert Michelisz	Report
17	Race of Japan	Norbert Michelisz	Gabriele Tarquini	José María López	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Norbert Michelisz	Report
18	Race of Japan		Tiago Monteiro	Tiago Monteiro	Honda Racing Team JAS	Honda	Hugo Valente	Report
19	Race of China	José María López	José María López	José María López	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Mehdi Bennani	Report
20	Race of China		Sébastien Loeb	Yvan Muller	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Mehdi Bennani	Report
21	Race of Thailand	José María López	Sébastien Loeb	José María López	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Mehdi Bennani	Report
22	Race of Thailand		Gabriele Tarquini	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Tom Chilton	Report
23	Race of Qatar	José María López	José María López	José María López	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Mehdi Bennani	Report
24	Race of Qatar		Yvan Muller	Yvan Muller	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Norbert Michelisz	Report

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Championship standings

Drivers' championship

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Pos.	Driver	ARG		MAR		HUN		DEU		RUS		SVK		FRA		PRT		JPN		CHN		THA		QAT		Pts.
1	José María López	1¹	2	1¹	3	1³	6	1¹	2	2²	12	2²	2	3³	1	1¹	5	1²	Ret	1¹	3	1¹	3	1¹	8	475
2	Yvan Muller	2²	11	5	1	2¹	7	3	1	1¹	6	1¹	3	2²	4	7	2	5	15†	2⁵	1	Ret³	Ret	6	1	357
3	Sébastien Loeb	3³	1	3	2	6⁴	5	2³	5	9	7	3³	1	1¹	Ret	2²	15†	6³	4	3⁴	4	2²	1	4³	4	356
4	Ma Qing Hua	7⁴	6	2³	10	4⁵	9	5⁵	Ret	5	5	Ret	Ret	4⁴	3	6	1	4⁵	5	10†²	8	3⁴	2	5	2	241
5	Gabriele Tarquini	5	4	7	5	DSQ	13	6	4	3³	Ret	6	4	8	5	4⁵	3	3	12	Ret	2	5	5	15	7	197
6	Norbert Michelisz	6	7	8	11	8	1	4⁴	Ret	7	3	Ret	8	6	2	3⁴	4	2¹	14†	6	11	Ret	12	7	3	193
7	Tiago Monteiro	4⁵	3	6	Ret	5	4	Ret	3	8	1	8	9	7	Ret	5	Ret	9	1	7	6	7	DSQ	8	9	177
8	Mehdi Bennani	13	5	4²	12	11	Ret	7	6	14	Ret	Ret	7	9	9	11	10	7⁴	10	5	7	4⁵	7	2²	5	127
9	Hugo Valente	Ret	DNS	15⁴	9	3²	8	Ret²	DNS	12	8	5	5	Ret	6	Ret³	7	10	2	8	Ret	Ret	DNS	3⁴	6	120
10	Robert Huff	Ret	Ret	10	Ret	9	Ret	Ret	7	4⁴	2	4⁴	Ret	Ret	DNS	10	9	8	3	Ret	5	6	6	12	Ret	103
11	Tom Chilton	8	8	14⁵	4	7	3	9	DNS	6⁵	9	7	Ret	5⁵	8	14	13	Ret	6	Ret	DNS	11†	4	13	13	96
12	Nick Catsburg									11	4	Ret⁵	Ret	Ret	12	9	6	Ret	Ret	4³	Ret	Ret	DNS	9⁵	Ret	41
13	Tom Coronel	14†	Ret	Ret	Ret	10	2	Ret	8	17†	10	9	10	12	7	12	11	Ret	7	Ret	DNS	Ret	DNS	11	12	39
14	Stefano D'Aste	9	Ret	9	6	14	12	8	Ret	16	14	11	12	14	15†	13	Ret	14	9	9	13†	8	8	17	Ret	28
15	Jaap van Lagen							11	9	10	Ret	NC	6	10	11	8	Ret									16
16	Nicolas Lapierre																	11	8	DSQ	9	Ret	DNS	10	10	8
17	James Thompson	NC	Ret	11	7	DNS	DNS																			6
18	John Filippi	Ret	12	13	8	13	11	12	10	NC	15	12	14	15	13	15	14	13	11	NC	10	Ret	11	14	15	6
19	Néstor Girolami											10	11			DSQ	8									5
20	Grégoire Demoustier	12	10	Ret	Ret	12	10	13	12	15	13	Ret	13	13	14	16	12	12	13	Ret	12	9	10	18†	11	5
21	Rickard Rydell	10	9							13	11			11	10											4
22	Tin Sritrai																					10	9			3
23	Sabine Schmitz							10	11																	1
—	Dušan Borković	11	Ret	DNS	DNS																					0
—	Mikhail Kozlovskiy			12	Ret	Ret	Ret																			0
—	Maťo Homola											13	15													0
—	Nasser Al-Attiyah																							16	14	0
Pos.	Driver	ARG		MAR		HUN		DEU		RUS		SVK		FRA		PRT		JPN		CHN		THA		QAT		Pts.

Colour	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	Second place
Bronze	Third place
Green	Points classification
Blue	Non-points classification
Blue	Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple	Retired, not classified (Ret)
Red	Did not qualify (DNQ)
Red	Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black	Disqualified (DSQ)
White	Did not start (DNS)
	Withdrew (WD)
	Race cancelled (C)
Blank	Did not practice (DNP)
	Did not arrive (DNA)
	Excluded (EX)

Bold – Pole
Italics – Fastest Lap

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† – Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.

Manufacturers' Championship

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Pos.	Manufacturer	ARG		MAR		HUN		DEU		RUS		SVK		FRA		PRT		JPN		CHN		THA		QAT		Points
1	Citroën	1¹	1	1¹	1	1¹	5	1¹	1	1¹	5	1¹	1	1¹	1	1¹	1	1²	4	1¹	1	1¹	1	1¹	1	1069
1	Citroën	2²	2	2²	2	2²	6	2²	2	2²	6	2²	2	2²	3	2²	2	4³	5	2²	3	2²	2	2²	2	1069
2	Honda	4³	3	6³	5	5³	1	4³	3	3³	1	6⁵	4	6³	2	3³	3	2¹	1	6⁵	2	5⁴	5	7⁴	3	721
2	Honda	5⁴	4	7⁴	11	8⁵	4	6⁵	4	7⁵	3	8	8	7⁴	5	4⁴	4	3⁴	12	7	6	7⁵	12	8⁵	7	721
3	Lada	NC⁵	Ret	10⁵	7	9⁴	Ret	11⁴	7	4⁴	2	4³	6	10⁵	11	8⁵	6	8⁵	3	4³	5	6³	6	9³	10	360
3	Lada	Ret	Ret	11	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	9	10	4	NC⁴	Ret	Ret	12	9	9	11	8	Ret⁴	9	Ret	DNS	10	Ret	360
Pos.	Manufacturer	ARG		MAR		HUN		DEU		RUS		SVK		FRA		PRT		JPN		CHN		THA		QAT		Pts.

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Yokohama Trophies

World Touring Car Championship promoter Eurosport Events organized the Yokohama Drivers' Trophy and the Yokohama Teams' Trophy within the 2015 FIA World Touring Car Championship.

Yokohama Drivers' Trophy

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Pos.	Driver	ARG		MAR		HUN		DEU		RUS		SVK		FRA		PRT		JPN		CHN		THA		QAT		Pts.
1	Norbert Michelisz	6	7	8	11	8	1	4	Ret	7	3	Ret	8	6	2	3	4	2	14	6	11	Ret	12	7	3	168
2	Mehdi Bennani	13	5	4	12	11	Ret	7	6	14	Ret	Ret	7	9	9	11	10	7	10	5	7	4	7	2	5	164
3	Tom Chilton	8	8	14	4	7	3	9	DNS	6	9	7	Ret	5	8	14	13	Ret	6	Ret	DNS	Ret	4	13	13	124
4	Hugo Valente	Ret	DNS	15	9	3	8	Ret	DNS	12	8	5	5	Ret	6	Ret	7	10	2	8	Ret	Ret	DNS	3	6	118
5	Stefano D'Aste	9	Ret	9	6	14	12	8	Ret	16	14	11	12	14	15	13	Ret	14	9	9	13	8	8	17	Ret	88
6	Tom Coronel	14	Ret	Ret	Ret	10	2	Ret	8	17†	10	9	10	12	7	12	11	Ret	7	Ret	DNS	Ret	DNS	11	12	78
7	Grégoire Demoustier	12	10	Ret	Ret	12	10	13	12	15	13	Ret	13	13	14	16	12	12	13	Ret	12	9	10	18	11	72
8	John Filippi	Ret	12	13	8	13	11	12	10	NC	15	12	14	15	13	15	14	13	11	Ret	10	Ret	11	14	15	71
9	Tin Sritrai																					10	9			10
10	Sabine Schmitz							10	11																	9
11	Dušan Borković	11	Ret	DNS	DNS																					5
12	Maťo Homola											13	15													4
13	Nasser Al-Attiyah																							16	14	4
Pos.	Driver	ARG		MAR		HUN		DEU		RUS		SVK		FRA		PRT		JPN		CHN		THA		QAT		Pts.

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Yokohama Teams' Trophy

All non-manufacturer teams were eligible to score points towards the Yokohama Teams' Trophy.

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Pos.	Team	ARG		MAR		HUN		DEU		RUS		SVK		FRA		PRT		JPN		CHN		THA		QAT		Pts.
1	ROAL Motorsport	8	8	14	4	7	2	9	8	6	9	7	10	5	7	12	11	Ret	6	Ret	DNS	Ret	4	11	12	191
1	ROAL Motorsport	14	Ret	Ret	Ret	10	3	Ret	DNS	17†	10	9	Ret	12	8	14	13	Ret	7	Ret	DNS	Ret	DNS	13	13	191
2	Campos Racing	Ret	12	13	8	3	8	12	10	12	8	5	5	15	6	15	7	10	2	8	10	10	9	3	6	182
2	Campos Racing	Ret	DNS	15	9	13	11	Ret	DNS	NC	15	12	14	Ret	13	Ret	14	13	11	Ret	Ret	Ret	11	14	14	182
3	Zengő Motorsport	6	7	8	11	8	1	4	Ret	7	3	Ret	8	6	2	3	4	2	14	6	11	Ret	12	7	3	161
4	Sébastien Loeb Racing	13	5	4	12	11	Ret	7	6	14	Ret	Ret	7	9	9	11	10	7	10	5	7	4	7	2	5	150
5	ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport	9	Ret	9	6	14	12	8	11	16	14	11	12	14	15†	13	Ret	14	9	9	13	8	8	17	Ret	89
5	ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport							10	Ret																	89
6	Craft-Bamboo	12	10	Ret	Ret	12	10	13	12	15	13	Ret	13	13	14	16	12	12	13	Ret	12	9	10	18	11	64
7	Nika International	10	9							13	11	10	11	11	10	DSQ	8									42
8	Proteam Racing	11	Ret	DNS	DNS																					4
Pos.	Team	ARG		MAR		HUN		DEU		RUS		SVK		FRA		PRT		JPN		CHN		THA		QAT		Pts.

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† – Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.

2015 World Touring Car Championship

Teams and drivers

Team changes

Mid season changes

Calendar

Points system

Results and standings

Races

Compensation weights

Results

Championship standings

Drivers' championship

Manufacturers' Championship

Yokohama Trophies

Yokohama Drivers' Trophy

Yokohama Teams' Trophy

References

External links

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